With Discord announcing age verification globally, people are searching for alternatives. But a Discord alternative on the open social web might just look structurally quite different.

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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why? You could always self-host a federated Discord alternative and not federate it with anywhere else if you wanted it like that. You can use it like that and others can utilise its federation functions. Why is Federation presumably desirable for you when it comes to Lemmy but not Discord?

Federation is necessary here for long-term resistance to corporate greed and decline. It isn't a selling point specifically for the individual user experience here.

[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Snuck in an edit that touches some or your points. I'm not on Lemmy because of federation, that's incidental. I'm here because it's another option to explore. But I still use reddit, too, because the community is there.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago

But I still use reddit, too, because the community is there.

federation is important not because it can be used as some kind of buzzword, but because without it, even here we would be much fewer. there would be more very small communities, which can't interact, and overall with strictly distinct lemmy instances the whole user number would be much lower because of things people complain about a lot even this way, that there's not enough content

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

I can assure you here that the majority here will always want federation in anything even if it makes the sign-up process more complicated slightly to new users. For many reasons.

And sure, features also matter. If they didn't, then Matrix would be already winning here.